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Detail from a Minoan wall painting, depicting women attending spiritual ceremonies.

In Praise of Antiquity’s Grande Dames

Daisy Dunn’s new book argues that the great female poets, heroines, and martyrs of the ancient world tied history together with a ‘missing thread.’

Joan Smith

6 Feb 2025 · 19 min read

Athlete holds up barbells in front of a "Tokyo 2020" Olympic sign.

Gender Ambiguity, Transgenderism and Women's Sport

Every essay Quillette has published on gender ambiguous and trans-identified men competing against biological women in sport.

Quillette Members

31 Jul 2024 · 3 min read

The Ethos of Female Prisons

A philosopher breaks down the debate over how to treat male criminals who self-identity as women.

Holly Lawford-Smith

16 Feb 2023 · 12 min read

Ignoring Biological Reality Puts Female Hockey Players at Risk

A frightening injury at an NHL-sponsored transgender tournament in Wisconsin reminds us why women’s leagues should remain sex-protected spaces.

Jonathan Kay

9 Dec 2022 · 12 min read

Extraordinary Destiny

In a newly published book, a motivational speaker who works with female prisoners reflects on the life lessons she’s learned behind bars.

Phyllis Taylor

17 Nov 2022 · 10 min read

On the Issue of Female Athletics, the IOC Has Shirked Its Duty to Lead

It’s wrong to make everyone wait for proof of the obvious when it comes to genetic males outperforming genetic females.

Doriane Coleman and Martina Navratilova / Doriane Lambelet Coleman

29 Nov 2021 · 7 min read

The World Economic Forum and the Misleading Politics of Gender Equality

Women fall behind in countries with low levels of economic and social development, largely due to poor educational opportunities.

David C. Geary and Gijsbert Stoet

6 Aug 2021 · 12 min read

Gender Transition and Desistance in Teenage Girls: Two Psychotherapeutic Case Studies

Detransitioners and desisters can also feel angry at psychiatric and medical specialists, who they understandably believe have not adequately assessed their motivations for requesting medical intervention.

Susan Evans and Marcus Evans

30 Jul 2021 · 27 min read

Rescuing the Radicalized Discourse on Sex and Gender: Part Two of a Three-Part Series

Our choice of words affects the way we think. That’s why we spend so much time fighting over which terms to use, whether it’s “undocumented immigrants” versus “illegal aliens,” “foetuses” versus “unborn babies,” or “militants” versus “terrorists.” In recent years, the question of word choice has figured prominently

Allan Stratton

27 Jul 2021 · 17 min read

Standing Up to the Gender Ideologues: a Quillette Editorial

Once you sweep aside all the glitter showers, animated unicorns, and rainbow emojis, that is ultimately what gender supremacism is truly about.

Quillette

24 Jun 2021 · 10 min read

The 'Gender Supremacist' Threat to the Progressive Alliance: Part One of a Three-Part Series

Allan Stratton

22 Jun 2021 · 22 min read

When Sons Become Daughters: It’s Time to Admit That Reflexive ‘Affirmation’ Has Been a Mistake

Teenagers are being told that puberty is a time for them to make decisions about sex and gender, this at a time when they have none of the life experience that would be necessary to make such existential choices.

Angus Fox

18 Jun 2021 · 16 min read

When Sons Become Daughters, Part VI: Asexuality, Intelligence, and the Trans Co-Option of Intersex Discourse

Puberty had been distressing and rough. He’d began to cut himself, and saw transition as a way out.

Angus Fox

7 Jun 2021 · 12 min read

Sorry, Demi Lovato: You Can't Fight Sexism by Opting Out of Womanhood

It’s true that hair is a definitive socially-constructed characteristic of femininity (and masculinity) in many cultures.

Mary Kate Fain

31 May 2021 · 9 min read

Gender Activists Co-Opted British Columbia’s Courts. Meet the Woman Who Stood Up to Them

Under this policy, declaring one’s pronouns is required when people introduce themselves in court whether they present in keeping with their biological sex or not.

Karin Litzcke

19 May 2021 · 16 min read